tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12796349290192900272024-02-27T02:54:11.580-05:00The Resourceful Room!A Kindergarten teaching blog, sharing tips for classroom organization, fun teaching ideas, printables, and freebies.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03544618318003774546noreply@blogger.comBlogger408125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1279634929019290027.post-65774110271863503512017-03-08T10:44:00.002-05:002017-03-08T10:44:52.532-05:00Paint without the Mess? Yes, Please!My kindergartners love to paint! I want to give them opportunities to do that but sometimes its just to much work to get everything out and organized, then clean up in a classroom with no bathroom or sink. I don't want paint on the carpet and having water to clean things with is always a problem. So when I found Kwik Stix made by <a href="http://www.thepencilgrip.com/">The Pencil Grip</a> I was so excited.<br />
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These paint sticks are so amazing! They give my students the opportunity to paint without the mess, and they dry quickly (within 90 seconds) so we can take our work home the same day!<br />
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My students ask to use them everyday. They've become a favorite activity for word work and free choice center time too.<br />
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The new Thin Stixs are great. My students can easily write with them or color smaller pictures more precisely. I think Kwik Stixs are a must have in every kindergarten classroom. If you are looking for another great product to add to your word word or art center you have to get these! You can find Kwick Sticks on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_1?srs=2602132011&rh=i%3Aspecialty-aps%2Ck%3Akwik+stix&keywords=kwik+stix&ie=UTF8&qid=1483720795">Amazon HERE</a>!</div>
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learning about Apples and Johnny Appleseed this week. We started the morning
with apple tasting. We tasted red delicious, golden delicious (yellow), and
granny smith (green) apples and used our five senses to describe each one. Then
each student chose their favorite and colored their apple the corresponding
color. I used poster board and cut out an apple shape to make our graph.</span><span style="font-family: "kg what the teacher wants"; font-size: 18pt;"> The printables for the graph are from <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Smart-Apples-Unit-1455035">Stephanie Stewarts Smart Apples unit</a>.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA0cIab_M1SKJWh_VVoUO1dv8lRBtJT8lCGDf0u6-G2Dy-yJBmSsljx0NSOt_B9YL_mE-OVLOXJQ6yWKToWUwEJzOeBP77YGqW3bAen8Jv8_XGPdxlZydDdecLg8Cl8XGjVZq73Ra6ryIX/s1600/1.png" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "KG What the Teacher Wants"; font-size: 18pt; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="606" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA0cIab_M1SKJWh_VVoUO1dv8lRBtJT8lCGDf0u6-G2Dy-yJBmSsljx0NSOt_B9YL_mE-OVLOXJQ6yWKToWUwEJzOeBP77YGqW3bAen8Jv8_XGPdxlZydDdecLg8Cl8XGjVZq73Ra6ryIX/s640/1.png" width="640" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "kg what the teacher wants"; font-size: 18pt;">Then we talked about which color had the
most, the least, how many more, and how many less. For the rest of our math
lesson we made these “I See Apples” books. <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Apples-Galore-Numbers-1-10-695237">This book was free HERE!</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "kg what the teacher wants"; font-size: 18pt;">Then we read about Johnny Appleseed and
made hats just like Johnny wore! <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Free-Johnny-Appleseed-Hat-2799134">You can get the free printable from Simply Kinder</a>!</span></div>
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and the apple life cycle. Then we made this apple labeling craft. This is also from Stephanie </span><span style="font-size: 24px;">Stewart's</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> Smart apple unit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "kg what the teacher wants";"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">We made applesauce, following a recipe,
measuring and following directions! </span></span><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Smart-Apples-Unit-1455035"><span style="font-family: "kg what the teacher wants";"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Also from Stephanie </span><span style="font-size: 24px;">Stewart's</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> Smart Apple unit.</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "kg what the teacher wants"; font-size: 18pt;">Then we wrote about how we made the
applesauce with this shared writing chart. I used poster board and laminated it
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put this little poem on them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "kg what the teacher wants"; font-size: 18pt;">And we made stained glass paper apples to
decorate our windows! <a href="http://kindercraze.com/apple-stained-glass-window-decorations/">This template is Free from Maria Gavin at Kindercraze.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "kg what the teacher wants"; font-size: 18pt;">It was a fun day and our room looks and
smells so good!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "kg what the teacher wants"; font-size: 18pt;"> Thanks for stopping by and reading about our day! We have grandparents day and a pumpkin day coming soon. I can't wait to share it with you!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03544618318003774546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1279634929019290027.post-56551269516581600402016-09-10T06:00:00.000-04:002016-09-10T06:00:07.044-04:00Hello, Welcome to a New Grade...Again!Hi Friends! I've missed all of you. I haven't blogged since last October! Life was happening! My son finished his freshman year of college, has a girlfriend, and went on a missions trip. My daughter had a very busy senior year and graduated from high school, so you know we were celebrating that. My husband and I celebrated 20 years of marriage. He got a new job, and I decided to move grades once again! It was such a busy year for me personally and professionally that I just didn't have time to get anything on the blog. Now that both my children are settled into college, and the new school year has gotten underway I am ready to be back here sharing great ideas with all of you! Thank you for being patient with me as I was slow on updating! Now for the fun stuff...<br />
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I am teaching Kindergarten! It's my dream job! Really, I couldn't be happier. I spent a good part of my summer putting together a welcoming classroom for my little ones and I want to share all of it with you, so let's take a tour of my new room! I'll leave links to the things I have purchased and try to explain as much as possible, and I've got several freebies for you!!<br />
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Here it is...<br />
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This is the view from the door. It's a pretty small room but I've tried to make the most of the space. You can see my "teacher" small group area, the library and students desks. Under each set of windows I strug a length of twine and clipped student work up for a fun and easy work display.<br />
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These drawers are directly to the left of the door, they store any type of cleaning/organizational things we may need such as baggies, cleaning wipes, brooms, paper plates/cups, and extra Kleenex. Above the drawers is our behavior tracking system we use a colored card system K-3 to keep consistency. I added a shout out board for students who are going above an beyond. We give them a shout out cheer, their name goes on the board and they get a couple M&M's. They are so proud when their name goes up there!</div>
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The back wall has two large boards, they are actually shower board but they are old and I decided to use them as bulletin boards instead of white boards. This one has our interactive alphabet, where we add pictures to the letters we learn each week. I got this idea from <a href="http://kindercraze.com/my-biggest-faq-answered/">Maria at KinderCraze, you can check out her blog for directions!</a><br />
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Under the board is our sensory table, I found the directions for <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/122089839875340053/">making this out of pvc pipe and a storage container on pinterest</a>. It works really well. I have two yoga balls for kids to sit on while they work if they prefer. the drawers underneath hold sensory table supplies so I can switch them out with the seasons.<br />
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Above the board are my shape posters! The letters that spell "shapes" are typed one letter per page in one of my favorite fonts, printed and cut out. I added a solid color under each letter for a "shadow" effect. This is an awesome idea I got from <a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com/">Kacey at Doddle Bugs Teaching</a>. Her letters on her boards are always amazing! <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8PtrZ3awA1tZ2tkRzE5MHVSa1U">The shape posters are free</a>!<br />
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Next to the alphabet board are our class rules. I got the chalkboard from Target dollar spot and added a cute ribbon for hanging. The rules are also from <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Classroom-Rules-Subway-Art-Poster-Set-White-Series-1247393">Maria at Kindercraze</a>. The drawers underneath are our class mailboxes. The green bin on top holds our daily folders, at the end of each day we take our mail from the drawer and put it in our folders to take home.<br />
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This is the second big board along the back wall. It is holding our word family word wall. Our curriculum is big on word families and I am glad for the space to display them. The "word families" and "colors" letters are the same font I used for shapes printed one per page and cut out.<br />
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Under the board on the white shelf are our morning work tubs, center tubs, and puzzles that can be used during free choice center time. I will explain more about what is in each of these in a latter post. The cart in the corner is holding the larger center toys such as Legos and large ABC foam shapes.<br />
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Above the board are my color posters. I printed them round and put a piece of scrapbook paper in the corresponding color under each to help them stand out. These are also free you can grab them <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8PtrZ3awA1tRGs1aUJsNVltaEU">HERE</a>!<br />
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Here's a view from the other side of the room!<br />
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This is the front of the room and our meeting space. I love this carpet I got this year from <a href="https://www.kidcarpet.com/">Kidcarpet.</a> It is perfect for giving everyone their own space! I have it right at the front of the room so all of our important learning posters and displays are quickly accessible while we are here. To the left is our calendar area and more center tubs. Above the white board are my alphabet and <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Posters-2776756">number posters</a> that can be found in my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Alphabet-Posters-2776729">TPT store</a>. To the right is my teacher small group area, I will explain more about that in a little bit!<br />
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Next to my teacher area these drawers hold our tablets. We are one to one with Samsung Galaxy Tablets this year and I am loving it. These drawers hold the tablets perfectly. Tablet rules are above the drawers you can get them free <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8PtrZ3awA1taEQzZ0swVnFnTk0">HERE</a>! I love, love, love the vinyl quote under the clock I bought it on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014C4TY9M/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1">Amazon</a>! </div>
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To the right of the drawers is our class library! This is my favorite space!! I love books! Having an inviting and organized library is always a must for me. I loved putting this space together.</div>
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I organized my books by character and theme. I made my own labels and put the same picture on each tub and book so students will know where to return them easily. The bins on the top are from <a href="https://www.dollartree.com/household/storage-organization/Bright-Plastic-Storage-Baskets-with-Hinged-Handles/500c541c541p167631/index.pro">Dollar Tree</a>, the bins on the shelves are from <a href="http://www.stepstoliteracy.com/">Steps to Literacy</a>. The rug is from <a href="https://www.walmart.com/ip/NXT-GEN-Distressed-Zig-Zag-Area-Rug/46134807">Walmart</a>.</div>
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Along the wall we have a tub of reading buddies and a tub of big books. The small front facing shelf holds our theme books for the month. Right now it's back to school books.</div>
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In the corner you see our carpet bags hanging on a coat rack I got from <a href="http://www.hobbylobby.com/">Hobby Lobby</a>. I love this storage solution! Carpet bags are a great time saver for us! <a href="http://kindergals.blogspot.com/2016/07/organize-your-group-time-with-carpet.html">Learn all about them over at Kindergals</a>! </div>
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The C<a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/product/tweeting-birds-6-designer-cut-outs">reative Teaching Press Tweet Birds</a> have been a favorite of mine for the past few years. They started my color scheme and I've kept the poppy red, lime gree, aqua blue going throughout the room. I think it brings a unity that keeps the room from looking to visually cluttered. This board says "Friends of a feather read together: the READ sign is from Target dollar spot. Each of the birds has a student name on it.</div>
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This is my small group/teacher area. Behind my table I have<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiNiaX2x4PPAhWJ6x4KHdpHCewQFghkMAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.homedepot.com%2Fp%2FClosetMaid-Selectives-31-in-White-Stackable-Storage-Organizer-7064%2F100597823&usg=AFQjCNEp5Ph3DOnWxEn54kLXTT_GPTVOlg&sig2=wAar93tARtEJsqov0ejmXQ"> closet organizer shelves from closetmaid </a>that just happen to fit the <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjKv8iYyIPPAhXFdh4KHW_HCpUQFghEMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FSterilite-3-Drawer-Desktop-Unit%2F15442451&usg=AFQjCNHS3m76dHPKv5o30nmw-xOGrnO4WA&sig2=PehHiwnCswVQHFgJ5sjYxQ">sterilite three drawer units</a> perfectly. I put <a href="https://www.teachercreated.com/products/aqua-chevron-straight-border-trim-5508">border </a>inside each drawer, and labeled each drawer with a number. All of the supplies I need for my reading lessons that week are in the drawer. So drawer one holds all of our reading materials for week one and so on. I found the corner shelves several years ago at Walmart in the same closet organizing section, they are closetmaid brand but I have not been able to find them recently. I painted my table with dry erase paint this summer and love it. I used blue duck tape around the edge to give it some color. The stools are from <a href="https://www.familydollar.com/">Family Dollar</a>.</div>
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A closer view behind the table. The <a href="https://www.walmart.com/ip/14958194?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&adid=22222222227009538662&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=40874902112&wl4=pla-78766480712&wl5=9016241&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=online&wl12=14958194&wl13=&veh=sem">smaller drawers</a> on top are my teacher toolbox, they hold all the little things that would go in a desk, but free up so much space. I also have a bin for my student assessments and I found the magnetic tin board at <a href="http://www.michaels.com/">Michaels </a>on clerance this summer for just $2.00! I love how it added a place for me to post notes and some family pictures. The cubboards above my shelves house all of our math maniuplatives and extra supplies we need frequently.</div>
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One more view of my little space. Someday I am going to paint the filing cabinet but for now I used contact paper to cover the side most often seen. It's another great space saving place to hang things we need often.</div>
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This is our calendar area and center bins are stored underneath. I have six math stations and six word work stations that students cna choose from during rotations. The bins are from <a href="https://www.dollartree.com/household/storage-organization/Square-Dry-Erase-Plastic-Locker-Bins-with-Handles/500c541c541p361486/index.pro">Dollar Tree</a>. The shelves are <a href="https://www.walmart.com/ip/47724779?wmlspartner=wlpa&adid=22222222227036753778&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=100244824488&wl4=pla-140592757008&wl5=9016241&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=online&wl12=47724779&wl13=&veh=sem">six cube organizing shelves from Walmart</a>.<br />
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We do a basic calendar routine every morning. We count the days of school and use place value blocks to make the number,we also make tally marks for the number of days. We sing the days of the week and months of the year. We talk about the weather and our class jobs are displayed here. The <a href="https://www.bloglovin.com/blogs/kinder-craze-12966113/secret-to-skip-counting-in-kindergarten-4803325050">tally mark chart</a> and <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Daily-Weather-Label-Cards-Black-and-White-Series-1292092">weather charts</a> are from Maria at KinderCraze. <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8PtrZ3awA1tRlpxYUJ3NUNuUkk">The month and day charts are free HERE</a>!<br />
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I really love my job chart this year. I used these library pockets from creative teaching press and made job signs for the front. I just hot glued these pockets to the wall. We took pictures on the first day and I cut them out, put them on a popsicle stick and we use them to show who has each job.</div>
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One more view of our calendar area!<br />
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This is the front of the room where most of our learning happens. The <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Posters-2776756">number posters </a>and <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Alphabet-Posters-2776729">alpahbet line</a> are both in my store. I have used the precursive font because that is what is required at our school. I have also added them in a primary font for those of you who don't use precursive.</div>
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This is the inside of my door. The apple is from the Target dollar spot. I made the security curtian to match our classroom curtians, and the poster I found online but I can't find it to give credit. If you recognize it please let me know so I can give credit where due! I printed it larger through <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi9tODWy4PPAhWHLB4KHf43DGUQFgg4MAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vistaprint.com%2F&usg=AFQjCNEn4o2kG2c-XT05gM7R11RObSTNGg&sig2=hSJesYsK3A6x-0AQGRaqtQ">vistaprint</a> and used Creative Teaching Press Small Pencils to add each students name.<br />
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Here is our room from the hallway. I printed the "welcome" letters and made the wreath a few years back. I still love them! Our work display is another favorite of mine! It was a last minute idea that popped into my head and came together so well. I love hanging our work here for everyone to see.<br />
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Here's a better view of "Our Sweet Work" display! I made the awning with foam board from the dollar tree. I just scored through one side and bent it then used duck tape to keep it at the angle I needed. This is two boards put together. I covered both boards with green wrapping paper and the dots along the edge were a birthday party decoration I got from Walmart for a dollar. I just cut them apart and glued them on the edge. I laminated scrapbbook paper and hot glued it to the wall. Then glued mini clothes pins I got from <a href="http://www.michaels.com/">Michaels</a> to each piece. I love how it brightened up our entryway!<br />
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So there's my room for this year. We are now 22 days in and I am loving every minute of it. We just started reading groups and stations so I hope to be back soon sharing some fun ideas we are using with you! Thanks for reading, happy teaching!<br />
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This <a href="http://www.carsondellosa.com/products/104614__Differentiated-Reading-for-Comprehension-Resource-Book-104614#/?book media type=f389e45b92884d48844baaf09d49e3c5">Differentiated Reading for Comprehension book</a> has been great. It has engaging stories at three levels so that it's easy to use with small groups and differentiate for different abilities. My students have loved the stories and they have done a great job with answering the questions which was definitely a new skill for them when we started these.<br />
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I have been using these with my small reading groups but they would work well for whole group instruction as well. Great practice for finding proof within text. I think these would also work great for assessment.<br />
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For math these <a href="http://www.carsondellosa.com/search-catalog/?fq=producttype_string-AND%7CManipulatives;productdetail_string-AND%7CCurriculum%20Cut-Outs&utm_source=TheResourcefulRoom&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=BrandAmbassador">Curriculum Cut-Outs</a> have been the perfect warm-up activity for us!<br />
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I punched holes in the cards and put them on these rings. When students come in from recess they grab a ring and take it to their desks, then they get out their white boards and complete the problems.<br />
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The cards review a variety of skills that are fun and great practice for us in second grade. My students can't wait to get them out each day. Now our time after recess when some are getting drinks and using the restroom is actually productive and meaningful. You could use these as task cards, early finisher activities, or small group review as well. I am very happy with them.<br />
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Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope to be back soon with much more from our classroom!<br />
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They sharpen pencils to the perfect point and they don't chew up the plastic coating on the decorated pencils. My students can use them easily and I haven't had them break once! I even decided to go back to electric sharpeners last year and after two went down within a couple months, I went right back to these and haven't regretted it! I have a blue and a black one in my classroom, my son even took one with him to college!<br />
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When I saw the new color I just had to have one! I am in love with the new <a href="http://www.classroomfriendlysupplies.com/collections/frontpage/products/popular-purple">POPULAR PURPLE</a>!!<br />
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It's so pretty! I have been excitedly sharpening away, and my students were so excited to see a new sharpener, they've been using it like crazy. Just like before I haven't been disappointed. It works beautifully!<br />
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Want to put an end to pencil sharpening headaches? Go on over to <a href="http://www.classroomfriendlysupplies.com/">Classroom Friendly Supplies</a> and get one for your classroom. They come in lots of cool colors, sure to match and decor, and they are very economical, so you won't break the bank getting one - or two!<br />
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Know a teacher who could use one? These would also make great gifts for the upcoming holidays too!<br />
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Reading is my very favorite subject to teach - If you want to read more about that you can check out my post on the <a href="http://imbloghoppin.blogspot.com/2015/09/teacher-week-favorite-subject.html">Blog Hoppin</a> blog today!<br />
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I did say I may have 2 favorites. Since becoming a second grade teacher.So I'm sharing my other favorite here!<br />
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As a general education teacher I've had the first opportunity in my career to teach science and I have to say I LOVE IT! Maybe almost as much as reading. I know that my students love it, and it's mostly because of the fun hands on lessons we get to do.<br />
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Right now we are learning all about the states of matter and <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/As-a-Matter-of-Fact-A-Matter-Study-Including-11-Lessons-Engaging-Experiments-641340">Hope Kings unit</a> is amazing! It's filled with engaging activities to help teach all the important details.<br />
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From day one I had my students attention when I pulled out a water balloon and a frozen balloon, they've been captivated during science every since! We made these colorful flip books to help us identify the different states of matter and record our vocabulary words.<br />
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It has different pictures for them to cut out and glue under the correct heading to identify what state of matter that particular object would be.<br />
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Then we took a look at what molecules look like in different states. The person wearing lots of balloons represents solid, the person with a few balloons is liquid, the person with just two balloons is gas. They jump around and watch the molecules move, or not!<br />
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They glued fruit loops to the recording sheet to represent how the molecules looked during each state.<br />
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I know they are going to be so excited today when they see bottles of soda and pop rocks candy on the science table! I have so much fun prepping for these lessons and can't get enough of the excitement they generate in my students. So science is also my favorite subject, almost right up there with reading!<br />
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I kept the same color scheme for my classroom this year, but I did change a few things around.I'll try to give you as many details and I can, Let's start in the hallway!<br />
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These are the student lockers outside our door. I love the silhouette kids in <a href="http://kindercraze.com/2014/03/silhouettes-file-cabinets-and-bright/">Maria's Classroom</a> and thought it would be a perfect fit for this area that I don't wan to have to climb up to change out. I teach at a Christian school and we have a Bible memory program. Each week students memorize verses, those verses are on the cutouts along the wall. When they memorize the verse they get a heart to color and it goes up next to that verse. The words say "Thy word have I hid in my heart..."<br />
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This is the door to our classroom, I made the welcome letters above the door and the 2nd grade sign. To the right is our work display board. I used scrapbook paper and clothes pins to make a quick easy place to display our work.. I got the "Great Job" and "Wow" dots from Dollar Tree.<br />
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Here's the view just inside the door...<br />
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The whiteboards are new this year, we replaced the old chalkboards and it brighten the room up so much! I've placed all our important reference posters above the board, Alphabet, Numbers to 20,and cursive alphabet. I created all of these last year. You can see under the board I have a gutter used as a books shelf. This year I decided to make some labels so that one end will hold new books, the middle is a place for students to put books they love and want to recommend to others, and the far end holds my favorite books. I'm loving the excitement It's generated already to have someone share a book and place it in the shelf.<br />
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One end of the whiteboard is serving as our math focus board and calendar wall. I love having everything magnetic for the calendar.<br />
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I've had a few questions about the baskets under my boards, I used these small baskets from dollar tree that have wire handles and binder clipped them to the ledge of the white boards, makes a great place to put magnets, markers, and erasers!<br />
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Here's our classroom library, my favorite area in the whole room<br />
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I used this board for our CAFE board last year, this year I'm using it more as a focus wall. the white rectangle is labeled "our thinking" and we use it to put all our sticky notes with our thinking about the story we read each week. Our anchor charts are hanging here and the small pocket chart is used for vocabulary words. The blue small board to the left is for our author and genre study posters.</div>
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In the back left corner is my small group/teacher area. You can see on the back of the library book shelves I put hooks to hold our sight word reading cards and fluency phrases. The drawers behind my table are housing all the materials needed for each story in our reading curriculum plus my grammar units. I LOVE this organization system! It has been wonderful. </div>
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In this picture you can see the shelf to the right, it holds my teachers guides, and paper trays for each day of the week where I store all materials for my lessons, the furthest shelf holds our student data binders/learning portfolios and our base ten blocks in the divided containers. </div>
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Along the back wall I have two sets of these cubbies, this set is holding math manipulatives and math tubs. Underneath I have bins for our pillows we use during work time when we work around the classroom. This is helping keep them much more organized this year.</div>
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Here you can see the my filing cabinet, I'm using the side to display our bible memory verses. Above that is our birthday poster. To the right of the math cubbies is our student mailboxes and class rules.</div>
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The second set of cubbies on the other side of the mailboxes is where I keep our word work tubs and manipulatives. I am not using my teacher desk this year so I put it in the corner and got the stools from Family Dollar to put in front of it, ti makes a perfect work space for working on words. In the back right corner I have a smaller white board that I use to put spelling words on, the kids can also use it practice the words or with the magnetic letters. On either side of the board is our word wall. I laminated colored card stock and used it to make this -LOVE how it's working for us. Above the board we will display our vowel teams as we learn them. </div>
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Between our word wall and our writing center there's the clock and our schedule goes in the pocket chart underneath. The basket on the wall holds all our schedule cards. I covered this table with contact paper and got the stools at Family Dollar. The binders on the table are our writing notebooks. We will display our writing anchor charts here, and the poster with the pencil on it is a part of <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/A-Writers-Notebook-Unit-835817">Amanda Maddens writing notebooks packet</a>, we use it to display the grammar skills we've learned.</div>
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Back around the the front of the room, this shelf to the left of the door holds all community supplies we might need. The tubs on the bottom have brooms and cleaning wipes in them, Our pencil sharpeners are on top. The clothes lines are holding pictures of us throughout the year, right now they have a family picture from each student that they brought to share. Above the door is a class poster that last years 2nd graders made it has each of their hand prints on it. To the right of the door we have our class helpers board, passes, and sanitizer/tissue station. The narrow drawers hold extra sanitizer and tissue.</div>
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When our door is closed you will see our class pledge and name tags we made on the first day of school.</div>
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1.) I Love my Family! I can not believe that my oldest is off to college this year. He's about 6 hours away in Pennsylvania, and it feels so weird to not see him every day. He is loving it so far and I am so proud of him but it's a big change for this family! Here we are getting him settled into his dorm room a couple of weeks ago.<br />
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2.) My daughter and I are enjoying the school year too! She's a senior!! I don't know what I am going to do when she leaves next year. Here we are on the way to school for the first day, Her last first day of high school. Oh how I wish I could slow down time!</div>
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3.) My husband and I will be married 20 years this May! I hope we are able to go on a fun trip to celebrate. We haven't ever gone on a vacation without the kids. Our son was born six weeks early, one week after our first anniversary so this vacation has been a long time coming. Where should we go? We'd love some suggestions.</div>
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4.) I did not finish High School when I was suppose to. I ended up getting my High School Diploma through correspondence courses (before internet was available), and went to college 10 years later after my children were both in school themselves. I am the first in my family to earn a college degree. It was a lot of work but I LOVE teaching, and I'm so glad I went back to school! Here I am with my kids on my graduation day in 2008!</div>
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5.) Did I mention how much I LOVE teaching! I'm and organization freak, and totally coordinate my classroom. You will see more on Wednesday but here's a little peak at the organization behind my desk this year.</div>
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I am so fortunate to work with an amazing group of people that have a passion for teaching children. I love going to work everyday and watching the children learn and grow. This group of silly second graders has already stolen my heart!</div>
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Amazon has a great way for teachers to share their lists with parents, that benefits parents as well. No more searching and trying to figure out which one! You can link to exactly what you'd like the kids to show up with, parents can log in and shop, then have the items shipped right to their home. Sounds wonderful to me!<br />
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This record book will make tracking the standards a breeze. It's laid out in an easy to use format with all the standards at your finger tips. Plenty of room for recording dates and notes. Check out this video to see all the exciting features! </div>
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I am going to take pictures of all my students to add up here. I love how it brights up our hallway, and it was so easy to add our school theme with these letters. They are already cut out all I had to do was pick out the ones I needed and put them up.I got lots of complements on the brightness during back to school night.</div>
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I am also using the colorful calendar, and love it. The colors are very vibrant and the numbers show up so well. It also came with plenty of special day circles to add to those special dates.</div>
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I really wanted a way to put up some personal family photos and quick reminders around my "teacher" area. I didn't want it to take up a lot of space, I have a few frames but I really wanted it up off the counter because I plan on using that for materials this year. I was in <a href="http://www.michaels.com/">Michaels</a> again looking for something when I found these..</div>
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Cork squares, they came in packs of four and were on sale for 60% off so I got 8 squares for less than $3! They are perfect for the space I am wanting to use them in. </div>
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I wanted to dress them up to match my classroom so I got scrapbook paper in my colors, and spray adhesive. I cut the paper to fit each square and glued it on.</div>
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The cork came with foam mounting squares which I used to attach them to the wall. Here they are in use!<br />
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One last picture so you can get a better idea of the size. I only have three up right now but I plan to continue the pattern putting all 8 squares under this bulletin board. I am excited to have this place to pin things where I will easily see them!<br />
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Simple, functional, makes me happy :)</div>
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I had this space above the clock in my classroom that was empty. It's right between two bulletin boards and it looked so blank. I decided to create a poster to put there. So I came up with this....</div>
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Here it is in that empty space.</div>
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I love the reminder every time I look at the clock! You can click on either of these pictures to download this print free!</div>
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Finally for this week I re-decorated my plastic drawers that will hold my science and social studies units. I used scrap book paper from Hobby Lobby and double sided tape to attach it. Since It's just me using the drawers I think it will hold up fine. I created the labels and printed them on business card stickers. I laminated them before sticking them on so I can write on them and wipe it off later if I need to. I know my units keep changing so I like to be able to change the labels easily.</div>
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My classroom is really coming together. Looking forward to sharing the finished product soon. Right now I am waiting for a whiteboard to replace my chalkboard, then I can finally finish the front of the room and I'll be ready!</div>
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Don't forget to check out all the other awesome ideas over at <a href="http://4thgradefrolics.blogspot.com/">Tara's Blog</a></div>
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I had a shelf they were suppose to go on, but if they were on the shelf then students had to be getting up to get them every time they needed them. They were never able to do this quickly or quietly. When the boxes were at their desks they got dumped over and books were all over the floor getting stepped on and destroyed. I found myself saying "pick up your books" or stopping to pick up the books myself constantly!<br />
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I searched for different solutions and finally decided to try book bags for next year. I bought canvas bags from <a href="http://www.michaels.com/canvas-tote-bag-3-pack/M10117571.html?dwvar_M10117571_color=White#q=canvas+tote&start=3">Michaels</a>, and <a href="http://shop.hobbylobby.com/products/13-1/2-x-13-1/2-black-tote-bag-212886/">Hobby Lobby</a>. I wanted them to match my classroom so I was looking for red, green, and blue. I found really nice red bags at Hobby Lobby they were on sale for 50% off so I got them for 1.50 a bag. I couldn't find blue or green so I decided to get white bags and dye them the colors I wanted. The white bags come in packs of three for 7.99 I had 40% off coupons for both stores so I ended up getting them for $3.19 a set.<br />
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I didn't want the dyeing process to be a lot of trouble, I've seen posts about dying things in the washer and decided to go that route. I bought Rit liquid dye made to be used in the washing machine.<br />
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I decided to use emerald green and royal blue. I like lime and aqua but I know the bags will be used a lot and I didn't want them to be really light colors, I am sure they will get dirty. Each bottle of dye cost $2 at Walmart.<br />
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I followed the directions on the container, putting six bags in the washer using the hottest water possible and ran it through the cycle twice.This did mean I had to watch the time and make sure I set the cycle back to the beginning before the water drained, but that was the most trouble I had.<br />
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The washer did all the work! After the bags ran through the double cycle I washed them one more time in warm water with detergent, then hung them up to dry. The color came out really vibrant. I was surprised at how dark they were when they came out of the wash, but after drying they were much brighter. I ran the empty machine through a small wash with a cup of bleach after the bags were done and there are no signs of dye left over in the washer at all.<br />
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Such a simple process and the bags turned out great! I am so excited to see how these work for us this year.<br />
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It's hard to see the green but I really like the shade! It's not too dark but not super light either.<br />
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I wanted to label the bags as we will be using them for individual book boxes so I made these cute little tags to match them. I plan to laminate them and attach them to the bags with book rings. I didn't have a ring at home so I just put this one on with a paper clip!<br />
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I still want students to have a little ownership of the bag so I am going to wait and let them write their names on the tags before I laminate them. If you would like to use the labels you can download them <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8PtrZ3awA1tNWNGLVcyZG5VdHc/view?usp=sharing">HERE</a>!<br />
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I also spent part of the week organizing my library and labeling books! It's been a big job but it will be so worth it!! I'll share it all with you when it's finally finished.<br />
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Don't forget to head over to Tara's blog to see all the other Monday Made It Projects!<br />
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Up first is a desk redo that I am loving! I had this old desk/computer cart that I really wanted to use in my classroom but it was soooo ugly. I decided to give it a make over.<br />
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See I told you UGLY!<br />
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I primed it first since it's laminate, and then spray painted it with an aqua blue. I used this beautiful contact paper I picked up in the Target Dollar Spot to cover the top, and I love how it turned out! I am going to use this at the front of my classroom for my document camera and teachers guides. I really love it!</div>
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Next I wanted new curtains. I searched and searched for something that would match and I just couldn't find anything I liked. So I decided to make some. I ordered this fabric from Fabric.com.</div>
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Which matches my room perfectly and sewed simple valances for my windows.I think they look much better than the old ones which didn't match my colors at all! </div>
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I had a large blank space in my classroom last year that I tried to hang things on but everything kept falling unless I used hot glue and after about November I just didn't have time to hunt down the ladder and use the glue gun to get things up there. So I decided to create some easy bulletin boards that I could pin stuff on. </div>
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See that big blank space! I need to use that!<br />
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I got foam board from the Dollar Tree, I used spray adhesive to attach colorful paper and a boarder to each board. I LOVE this new <a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/content/search.aspx?SearchTerm=ombre">Painted Palette</a> <a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/content/search.aspx?SearchTerm=ombre">Ombre border from Creative Teaching Press</a>. I got the mounting tape from Menards. I used this last year for a hall display and it was great. It's removable but holds really well. I taped the back of each board generously and then stuck them to the wall.</div>
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Here's that space now! Can't wait to add our vowel team activities here this year!<br />
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I added these above our writing center as well to display grammar and punctuation anchor charts!</div>
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I saw this <a href="http://www.gottoteach.com/2014/12/student-birthdays.html">post by Melissa at Got To Teach</a> and knew I wanted to make one! So I had the poster I made last year printed as 18x24 at <a href="http://www.vistaprint.com/vp/welcomeback.aspx?xnav=welcome&rd=1">Vista Print.</a>.</div>
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I got a poster frame at <a href="http://www.michaels.com/studio-decor-trendsetter-frame-red-18-in-x-24-in/10280869.html#start=2">Michaels</a>. It was white and I liked it but the poster blended in with it and I wanted it to pop, so I painted the frame red and I LOVE it! Can't wait to hang it in the classroom.</div>
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I wanted name plates for my students desks that 1.) match the classroom, and 2.) have only the references that we really use all the time on them. So I made these.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03544618318003774546noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1279634929019290027.post-36123217047694352372015-05-29T08:30:00.000-04:002015-05-29T08:33:13.728-04:00First Day of Summer Break - Celebrate with a Planner Giveaway!It's the first day of my summer break and I'm celebrating by getting my new planner all up to date for next year. Total teacher brain still in high gear over here. I wanted to share my new planner with all of you. I am in love with this gorgeous personal planner from <a href="http://www.amodernteacher.com/">April at A Modern Teacher</a>!<br />
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It's just so beautiful and functional! I can not wait to use this next year.<br />
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I love the little sayings throughout the planner!<br />
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There's a two page monthly calendar that is perfect for scheduling important dates and events. Each month has a tab that makes it super easy to find what you are looking for.<br />
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In the back of the planner you can record important information. Contacts, birthdays, and I especially love these note taking pages. I've always used a binder but it was big and clunky to carry around and I never ended up taking it to meetings because of that. I am super excited to be able to grab this and go to our meetings this year and have all my notes in one place!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03544618318003774546noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1279634929019290027.post-20589512768204886582015-05-12T06:30:00.000-04:002015-05-12T06:30:00.186-04:00Mother's Day Celebration!We love our moms! They are amazing and we wanted to celebrate them so we had a fun little celebration for them yesterday. Our classroom looked so good with bright colored table cloths and some flowers to brighten it up.<br />
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We made them necklaces.I took a picture of each student with a sign that said I love you mom, printed it 1" by 1". I used modge podge to adhere it to the back of these glass tiles. I added a bail using E6000 craft glue and we put them on ball chain. I got a spool of chain from Michaels and we cut it into 20" pieces. This made 15 necklaces and we had a lot left over. They turned out so cute and our mom's loved them!<br />
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We also made cards. Again I took pictures of the kids holding a sign that said "I love you because..." we put these on the front of the card. Inside it says "Top Ten Reasons I Love You" and they each wrote ten things about their moms. Adorable! They are all so unique and I love the things they came up with. We wrapped the necklaces in these little favor boxes I got at Dollar Tree, they were in the wedding stuff. They were just plain white so the kids decorated them.<br />
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Finally we made a video. I recorded each of them saying what they loved most about their mom and clip them all together in imovie on the ipad. It was the sweetest thing. The moms loved it.<br />
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It was fun to watch them interact with their mothers! We had a great time. I am so glad I took the time to make this day special for all of them.How do you celebrate Mother's day with your class? I'd love to read your ideas!<br />
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I am using <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/On-Safari-An-Animal-Science-Unit-240247">Hope King's Animal Safari Unit </a>as a basis for our study. It is Amazing!! You should check it out!<br />
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We started off by getting our animal expert badges!<br />
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Each group was given an animal classification group to study and report on. They worked together reading books and using the ipad to find information about their class. They created posters that we displayed around the room, one person from each group stayed with their poster to be the reporter while the others traveled around to learn about the other classes. The person with the poster was the teacher. They did such a great job. We then of course traded places so everyone got a turn learning about each class of animal. They loved becoming experts and teaching others!<br />
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Once we were experts on animal classes we studied biomes animals live in. <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/On-Safari-An-Animal-Science-Unit-240247">Hope's unit</a> has a GREAT biome flip book activity which we did. It turned out so well. I really was excited to send them home with the kids because I knew they were excited to share them with their families, and they had learned SO MUCH by making these!<br />
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Each student picked a biome and created a biome box as an at home project to share with the class. Again they turned out amazing. I was impressed with all the work they put into these.<br />
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We also took a look at animal life cycles and enjoyed watching caterpillars transform into butterflies! It was amazing to watch the process and again kept the kids so engaged, they came in every morning excited to learn more and see if anything had changed for our "pets". They even named them! Of course we don't whose who but they think they do!<br />
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I ordered our <a href="http://www.insectlore.com/">Butterfly Garden from Insectlore.</a> It was a great buy, very easy to use, and great online resources including emails to keep us updated on what we should be expecting along the way.</div>
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Finally we wrapped up our unit with a fun field trip to a local park where the Naturalists taught us about Mammals, reptiles, and amphibians that are native to our area. We got to see some animals up close, and take a hike through the woods to find them in their natural environment. It was a beautiful day, and such a great end to an exciting unit.<br />
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I have so much more to share with you! I promise it won't take me as long to do it this time! We are celebrating Mother's Day tomorrow. I hope to share our day with you sometime this week, along with end of the year projects and other fun things we've done along the way.<br />
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Thanks for reading! I hope you all have a wonderful week!<br />
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1.) We started our young authors books this week. Everyone is super excited to get their "<a href="http://www.barebooks.com/">Bare Books</a>" and start writing and illustrating them! We are planning a publishing party in March!<br />
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2.) Our art teacher was out this week so we did a little directed drawing/watercolor project in the classroom! I love how these little lambs turned out and the springish feeling they are bringing to our classroom!<br />
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3.) We are working on Literature circles, and recording our thinking in our sticky note files! I love this time everyday when little groups of 2nd graders are feverishly reading and recording amazing thinking!<br />
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4.) We've started a <a href="http://www.theleaderinme.org/">Leader in Me</a> book study at our school and I've been excited to start teaching my students the 7 Habits! We've been talking about being proactive and made these cute "I'm being proactive when..." craftivities you can get free <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Im-in-Charge-of-MeLeadership-Craftivity-1-331833">HERE</a>.</div>
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5.) I'm super excited to be participating in a blogging book study that starts tomorrow! </div>
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I'm enjoying the easy read so far and getting great ideas for active engagement in the classroom. Some amazing bloggers are hosting the study over the next few weeks. You can find out more about it <a href="http://imbloghoppin.blogspot.com/2015/02/book-study-want-to-join.html">HERE</a>!</div>
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This week we are finally getting back on track. I'm sharing some of the highlights from our classroom linking up with <a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com/">Doddle Bugs Teaching</a> for...<br />
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1.) We've started our first science unit. We are studying plants, and having so much fun!! We've been using lots of activities from <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Plants-All-About-Plants-Unit-For-The-Common-Core-Classroom-616280">Stephanie Stewart's Plants unit</a>.</div>
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The vocabulary cards, reading passages, and activities are great. It's organized in a really user friendly format, that makes it easy to plan and carry out engaging science lessons!<br />
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We planted beans and are anxiously awaiting our sprouts! We are keeping observations logs, hoping there is more than soil to look at soon!<br />
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2.) We are learning all about regrouping with addition. <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Double-Digit-Addition-Activities-with-regrouping-176435">Amy Lemon's Addition with Regrouping pack</a> is amazing. We made these "pockets', and I was completely impressed by how quickly my students picked up this concept.<br />
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3.) We had a few celebrations going on this week! First on Monday we celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday. We read books about MLK, and made these adorable colorful dreams craftivities adapted from T<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Freebie-Our-Dreams-are-Colorful-Classroom-Collaboration-Craftivity-501792">he Bubbly Blonde's Free resource.</a><br />
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4.) Today we celebrated the 100th day of school. We wrote numbers to 100, 100 words, wrote about what we would do if we had 100 dollars, and made these adorable 100 days smarter crowns. These resources are from <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/100th-Day-of-School-Freebie-Printables-522374">Mrs. Jones </a>and <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/100th-Day-Crown-193587">Julie Lee</a>.<br />
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Then we worked together to build a 100 cube line. Actually it ended up being a 400 cube line! They were so excited about it, we even took a video where they explained how they built it!</div>
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5.) Today was also pajama day and we had a celebration because these smarties have memorized 30 bible verses this year! It's Friday, and Pajama day, can't get much better than that!! Right?!?!</div>
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It's been a great week/month! Now time to enjoy the weekend, and get ready for another great week! Head on over to <a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com/2015/01/five-for-friday-linky-party-january-23.html">Kacey's blog</a> to see what everyone else has been up to this week! Thanks for reading. </div>
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Some of us second grade bloggers decided it would be fun to be Secret Santa's this year. I love shopping for other teachers, and getting a surprise package in the mail is the best!! It's even more fun when you make a new friend and find a new blog to follow!! So I was super excited for this exchange. First let me tell you who ...</div>
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<span style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;">Mrs. Palmer was so thoughtful! She did a wonderful job picking gifts that were so me! She wrapped each one with a special little note, such a nice personal touch!!</span><br />
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I was like a little kid opening each one! I love all of it!<br />
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The playing cards are awesome, coming from Mrs. Palmer's home state. My students are going to love playing games with them. The canvas is so perfect, she even personalized it with buttons and ribbon in my favorite color!<br />
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I already have plans for the super cute table cover, and that cup is going to get a lot of use too!<br />
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The glade plug is will keep our classroom smelling yummy this winter! I already have it up and love it!! The little notebook is for jotting down TPT ideas :)<br />
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Leaf sticky notes, right up my alley! I use these things all the time, already thinking of how we can use them next year! You can never have enough cute tape around these two rolls are adorable and have already been put to good use!<br />
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This snowman and snowflakes will keep our classroom cute and sparkly all winter!<br />
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Thanks you so much Mrs. Palmer! I loved everything and can't wait to use it all!<br />
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I went to Michaels looking for canvas, I was thinking we would make them small because I didn't know how much 14 canvases would cost, but I was surprised to find a pack of 10 - 8 X 10 canvases were only $20 and I had a 50% off coupon. I could get them for a dollar a piece, that just as good at getting a frame from the dollar store!! I was so excited. We already had paint at school so this was my only cost this year.<br />
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We started by choosing one color to color the entire canvas. We painted them and let them dry for a couple of days before adding our snow family.<br />
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To add the snow family we painted our fingers and pressed them onto the canvas. I know this is a popular idea there are all kinds of ornaments made this way. We made sure we had one snowman for each person in their family.<br />
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Then they took toothpicks and q-tips, dipped them in paint and added details to their snowmen as well as snow flakes to the sky.<br />
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Once the entire canvas had dried for a couple of days we used a oil based sharpie pen to write the saying "Families are Forever, Love Never Melts" on them. We practiced our handwriting on paper first, and sketched it with pencil before tracing it with the markers.They turned out absolutely adorable!! I think their families are going to love them, I know I do!!<br />
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I also made adorable picture ornaments for them. I purchased a cute chalk board from Hobby Lobby, wrote Merry Christmas 2014 on it and had the kids hold it up in front of the tree. I took a picture of each kid and had a wallet size print made at Wal-mart. I bought small pieces of wood (they came in packs of 10), sharpie paint markers, and spray adhesive.</div>
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I put the pieces of wood in a cardboard box to spray them so that the adhesive would not get on anything else. Sprayed the wood, and stuck the pictures on. I used the paint markers to color the edges of the wood that were still visible.</div>
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I used this sealer to cover the photos and make them more durable.</div>
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Then I added a bow (got the ribbon from Dollar tree) and there you go! Adorable little keepsakes for them!</div>
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All the presents are wrapped up and put them under the tree!<br />
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I have enjoyed making these projects with my students this year and can't wait for their families to receive them! I hope they become treasured keepsakes for many years to come!<br />
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1.) We are continuing to pass out "encouragement jars" and candy grams around the school for our random acts of kindness! It has been so sweet to see my students making connections with others students they would never have talked to before, and many adults have been blessed by the kind notes we've sent in their jars! I have really enjoyed this project!!<br />
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2.) We've been getting crafty this week! When I saw <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Easy-Holiday-Bulletin-Board-Ornament-Craftivity-1001388">this freebie on TPT</a> I knew I wanted to make these ornaments. I went the easiest route possible. Gave them some rolls of washi tape and some dot markers and let them decorate away. I hung them from the curtains over the windows. LOVE!<br />
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3.)When art was cancelled due to the lack of a sub I decided to do this stained glass nativity craft with my students during their art time. I got the idea <a href="http://www.housingaforest.com/stained-glass-nativity/">HERE</a>! <br />
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It was a lot of work to cut out all those nativity scenes but I love how they look in the window! totally worth it!<br />
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4.) We made our own stockings! Yep, we sewed!! I can't tell you how excited my students were to use an actual needle (blunt tipped of course) and yarn to sew together their felt stockings. They were so proud of their accomplishment. One little boy said he was going to go home and sew up the hole in his coat and surprise his mom with his new sewing talent!! They crack me up!!</div>
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Doesn't this just make our classroom look so festive!! I love walking into this each morning!<br />
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5.) We are learning about verbs and we made these adorable pictures. Thanks <a href="http://bainbridgeclass.blogspot.com/2011/12/winter-action-verbs-project-too-cool.html">Christina Bainbridge for this idea</a>, check out her blog for all the details on how we did this! </div>
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I got my winter scenes from <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Frozen-Winter-Scenes-Clip-Art-1591276">Kari Bolt</a>. Saving these to put on the bulletin board for after break.</div>
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We've had a busy week, and one more to go before break! I love the holidays but they can be exhausting!! I have a few more fun things planned for next week so come back and check it out!</div>
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First, I covered the table with a festive table cover. You can see the candy canes in the snow man tub - those are writing prompts. Snowman bucket with Christmas pencils. Mailbox for putting letters in. I also have a small nativity scene out - I teach in a Christian school so our focus with be on Jesus birthday this month and this visual helped with a sticker story we wrote! You can see it below.<br />
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I got these little candy cane notebooks from Oriental Trading, I toot the paper out of them and wrote a writing prompt inside. They love the novelty of these!</div>
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For lists I wrote out different things they could make lists of on Christmas Tree shapes from Shapes Etc. and put them on a ring. They choose one and write a list on one of the fun list pads I got from Dollar Tree and the Target Dollar Spot. They have so much fun trying to create the longest list. We have sort of a competition going to see who can come up with the most things for each one.<br />
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Letters can be written on this fun stationary. I have collected this over the years after Christmas when it goes on sale. My kids LOVE writing letters! I have had to limit them to one letter a day or they would go through all this stationary in a week. They send me cute notes everyday! I love that they love to encourage others with sweet notes!<br />
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I added some fun stickers in these little drawers, they can use them to seal their letter envelopes or write a sticker story. Again these are so much fun they would be gone in a day if they weren't limited. I only let them use one sticker sheet a day! I cut them so that there are three to four stickers per sheet that they can use for sticker stories and only one seal per sheet if they choose to write a letter.<br />
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I also got these sets of Nativity stickers at Hobby Lobby when they were 1/2 off. They used them to create a nativity scene like the small one I displayed up above and write about what happened on the first Christmas.<br />
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They did a great job. I LOVE them, they are now hanging above the writing center! It is fun to see what each one had to say about the first Christmas.<br />
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Finally we have new research cards! I picked up these trivia game cards at Dollar Tree, they have Christmas ones that I've used in the past that ask questions about different Christmas songs and movies that most kids are familiar with and this year I found these Bible ones that are perfect for us.<br />
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They get to choose a card and ask the questions to a friend. The answers are there so they can check them. Then they write about what they learned from their card. They have been doing such a great job with this. They love using their bible to look up the answers and read more about each question and they come up with new questions that I allow them to ask the class while we are having snack.<br />
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This center is one of my favorite. I love how it is set up and that I get to change things up every month to keep the kids engaged, yet it's not an overwhelming amount of work to do so. I LOVE that my students LOVE working here. Do you have a writing center? How do you organize it? I'd love to see what others are doing!<br />
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Come on over to read all about them!<br />
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I love that it gets kids thinking about others and what Christmas really means. So I read it to my class every year and we have done different projects to go along with it. This year I came up with something new!<br />
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After I read the book we brainstormed what Christmas makes us think about. We revised our lists and wrote a complete sentence that started with Christmas makes me think of..., they filled in the blank.I printed off a simple thought bubble for them to write their final thoughts in.<br />
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I used <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Character-Doodle-A-Face-Creative-Clips-Digital-Clipart-655616">Krista's Character Doodle-A-Face Clipart </a> and printed off a head for each student. I let them chose which one they thought looked most like them. Some of them weren't close, but I just went with it. They loved picking out the perfect match for themselves!<br />
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They colored the heads to look like them and cut them out.<br />
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I think they turned out great! I put them up on the bulletin board in the hall outside our classroom and I love seeing them every time I walk by! This was such a simple and fun writing project that they can keep and look back at year after year!<br />
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I will be blogging about all the other great things going on in our writing center soon! Come back and see all the Christmas fun we are having working on writing this month and grab some freebies! Thanks for reading.<br />
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